The Stars class were effective contributors acting out the parts of the Animal Boogie book. We had a good time making the animal moves and singing the songs.
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Tag: Music
‘If music be the food of love’………the Transition boys certainly played on! The boys worked together as Effective Contributors using musical and numeracy skills to keep in time and change notes when prompted. It came together very well and we had a very harmonious afternoon. We ended with a group conductor session to Hallowe’en classics!
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The World needs more Purple People!
We were all glad to see each other back at school after the holidays.
We were all successful learners and have been using the large building blocks and other items from around the classroom to help us with our numeracy skills.
Let’s build a really high tower!!
Counting is FUN!!
Meet our new Teacher – a very confident individual at this numeracy task.
We love songs about counting.
Multi-tasking – counting and doing my exercises!
Our lovely conker Art.
We love Working Together in the Pine Class . Golden Rule Number 6 – Helping each other and creating something special.
A work of art.
Lets Dance – Music and MOVE!
“Do you want to share?”
Purple Play Dough Fun!
Great exercises for our hands – flattening and grasping.
Rolling and squeezing.
Literacy online – listening to our story ‘The World needs more Purple People’.
Enjoying Boyle’s singing!!!!
This is our story.
Step 2 – to becoming a Purple Person ‘Laugh’ we do lots of that in the Pine Room!!!
Getting the menu photos ready for Monday “What do you fancy, Links or a Baked Potato?”
Embracing your inner Aladdin during Music and MOVE.
Have a Great Weekend Everyone!!!
The Transition boys were Effective Contributes while changing notes in time to the music during their music session. The boys used their numeracy skills to count the beat so that they knew when to change note. SSE Hydro here we come!
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Lets start a Band!!
Monday afternoon we enjoyed some relaxation time in class, some of us got to stretch out on bean bags, watch the sensory lights and listen to some soothing music, others played with the stimulating sensory toys.
One responsible citizen was far to busy to join us – she had a job to do! Sorting out the diaries and the Big Macs.
Tuesday Morning is Numeracy, we were all successful learners carrying out our numeracy tasks. Ordering money, creating cause and effect and making the Smart Board work and listening to the number songs, counting and building the big blocks – and then knocking them down!!!!
Why is this not working?
Got it now!!
…18, 19, 20!!!
Okay good counting! But time to knock it down!!!
Timber!!!!
For Science in keeping with our Colour Monster Theme, we made ‘Exploding Monsters the colours weren’t so effective BUT they did bubble up!!
Wednesday morning we made some hand prints ….I wonder what they are going to be?
Step two together…
Lets start a Band!!!
We were confident individuals in the afternoon showing off our musical skills.
A duet!!!
Today we started to make some stress monsters – picking our Balloons
Making a mess… No …filling them with flour!
Balloons are great fun!!
Using a funnel – and puffing the flour back out of the balloon!!! Wrong Day for Wilson to wear black!!!
All done!!
We have been looking at the changing seasons and decided to use conkers to create cool Art.
We were successful learners and created some great Art work.
Our Cactus Hand prints.
Sensory Play with Shaving Foam – great hand exercises and messy fun!!
Exercising with my new Gaitors on – building muscle strength.
Stretch and grasp.
I was a confident individual on my bike.
Wishing you all a great weekend.
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Highlights of our Week
We have a right to share our thoughts freely UNICEF Article 13. We enjoyed listening to a story called, ‘What to do with an idea’. The moral of the story was to share your ideas with everyone and say what you are thinking. So we made a silhouette picture of our head and put jigsaw puzzles inside for our ideas. In the Oak class we are regularly encouraged to share what we think.
We enjoy working on our reading skills every week, we are becoming confident individuals at reconsigning the familiar words that are repeated throughout the story.
Everyone in the Oak class loves pizza, we played a pizza topping game with friends to increase our memory skills. Some of us could remember three toppings others could remember up to five toppings.
We were successful learners when following the music to play some of our favourite songs, this week we played ‘I Love my Life’ and ‘Three Little Birds’. Everyone was actively engaged in the music lesson.
We enjoyed our outdoor PE lesson, we were working on our basketball skills. We were confident individuals when trying to dribble and shoot as independently as possible. Everyone focused their attention and listened to the advice given to make their performance better.
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I do not eat the colour green!
In Numeracy we were all successful learners and worked on our counting skills – lots of counting songs and finding a set of classroom objects for each number.
1 Fly Swat
2 Pretty Flowers
3 Rhythm Sticks
4 Musical Bells
5 Different Feelings
6 Pink Flamingos
7 Classmates
Colour Matching – griping the different objects and posting them through the correct slot.
We enjoyed doing some art work and using bubble wrap to help us create some different effects.
The weather was so nice on Tuesday afternoon we got outside in the sunshine and had great fun having a sing song!!
In keeping with our Rainbow theme this week is all about GREEN, and we have started reading a new story called ‘I do not eat the colour green’.
Music and Move with some confident individuals.
Domino Fun
ICE Pack – How I feel? We are continuing reading the story ‘The Color Monster’ – we all decided what colour and what materials to use to bring our Monsters to life!!!
We have also been looking at the changing seasons and made some beautiful leaves for our windows.
We had some fun with bread dough, it is great exercise for our hands – stretching and griping and a fun sensory experience too!
Have a great weekend
From the Pine Class
Well did we find a Pot of Gold? 
Aitken saw a lovely Rainbow at the weekend – have any of you spotted a rainbow?
Literacy – The Story of the Leprechaun by Katherine Tegen 
And some music 
Well it isn’t just the end of the Rainbow it is the end if the School year – and a different end to the School Year it has been!!!
We have put in some Rainbow ideas for you to do this week if you want – but also included some other websites that might be appropriate if you are looking for some activities inspiration over the holidays OR just incase there is some wet weather!!!
What have the Pine Ladies been up to with Colour???
Jardine looked lovely in Yellow with her wee blue Gnome.
Aitken was celebrating British Flower Week , with some beautiful flowers.
Boyle has made her own pretty rainbow with lovely scarfs.
And Wilson found Heather’s Rainbow Bears up the loft!!!
Cookery 
Lets make some colourful food for the last week – Boyle has suggested a lovely layered salad?
Or we could have some colourful fruit skewers!
We have made colourful cupcakes in class and really enjoyed it!
Ice lollies are another good idea and very easy to make – or you can make more complicated ones if you get adventurous!!
The Rainbow Ice Lollies link is below – Eats Amazing has some great ideas for ice lollies and other tasty food and treats – have a wee look and see if you can find some things you would like to make.
A few different ideas for this week and into the holidays – Remember take some photos of anything you do – we would love to see your photos after the holidays. 
Art 
We love making painted handprints in the Pine Room so this is a lovely idea and you could turn it into a beautiful gift.
The Kids Craft Room have lots of different lovely activities if you are looking for some other activities too!
Another website that you might like to have a look at for some recipes and craft ideas is Mother Could, linked below. I will warn you some of her activities are pretty messy!!!
The other thing you could do it put up a new Rainbow in your window – have a look on the internet for some different ideas!
Boyle found these beautiful earrings on the Silver Fox Jewellery
And thought they could inspire some of you to make some jewellery – using things, such as pieces of wool, beads and threads to make to different jewellery. Below are a couple of websites with instructions to help you create something special.
Or what about Knitting – you could help someone to pick the pattern and the colours and perhaps even have a wee go!! Wilson has been knitting a rainbow cushion for Heather and Willow the Bear …it is nearly finished!!
Numeracy and Colour Sorting 
In class we enjoy colour sorting and counting – so below are a few different ideas you can try at home and the links to the websites.
Animals and Nature
We have looked at some animals that are blue, green …even purple BUT some animals are multi coloured – check out the link below and see some of the Natural History Museums most colourful creatures – you will be amazed!!! Have a look on the internet as well and see if you can find anymore??
How does a Rainbow happen?
Dr. Binocs is going to explain that all to you! It is Amazing!!!!
Willow the Bear 
Well Pine Class, myself and Heather are back on good term because the ASDA shopping arrived and guess what was in it…….CUSTARD CREAMS!!!! We did have a disaster as the washing machine broke and there was water all over the floor, Heather was trying to stop the water and put down towels – she seemed to be quite cross, but I thought it was really funny!!! On Friday I got a SURPRISE, Heather has bought me a kitten to keep me company when she is at work, she is called Ada, I am so HAPPY!!! We can watch the delivery men delivering the online shopping to the neighbours, and watch reality TV together and travel to ASDA in Heather’s back pack – oh seemingly that’s not allowed!!!! Well Pine Class this is my last blog post until after the holidays, by then I will have lots to report!!
Love and Bear Hugs
Willow xxxx
P.S. Remember if you make Blueberry Muffins or have any spare Custard Creams please post them to me!!
Music
A video going through all of the different colours with the Pine Ladies for you to watch. Pine Ladies Rainbow 
Movie 
Well it is time for Dorothy to click her red shoes together and head home!
We hope that you enjoyed The Wizard of Oz and all the Colours of the Rainbow!
Well as Willow said this is the last blog and we will see you all after the summer at school – apart from one special Lady that is going to retire after 24years of working at Witch Hill and Willowbank!!!
JARDINE we are all very sad you are retiring and we won’t get to see you everyday at work. We are going to miss you so much – but hope you will come and visit as often!!
Love
The Pine Ladies
xxxx
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Orange and Blue🧡💙
Pine Class we have been missing you all so much that we had to take drastic measures and make a little version of you all!!
Well we are at our last two colours of the Rainbow!!!!
So we are going to select some different activities involving these two colours.
It is also POLO week – Power of Learning Outdoors – so we are going to include some activities you can do outside too!!
Cookery 
I think blue is even more difficult than purple so we will leave the cookery to orange.
So what about some carrot soup?
- Can help wash the carrots and other vegetables?
- Can you help peel?
- What about chopping and grating?
- Can you hear the soup bubbling away?
- Now it is cooked – what does it taste like – is it yummy?
Below are links to a few different recipes you may like to look at OR you may have one of your own REMEMBER to send in photos and your recommendations.
Everyone is making Banana Bread just now what about Carrot Cake for a wee change??
Animals and Nature
You may have noticed quite a lot of bees just now – bees are an important part of our world, they help to pollinate plants that create the food that we eat.
They is a link below from the BBC which shows you a wee video explaining the importance of the bees.
And below is another link giving you ways you can help the bees – see if there something you can do in your garden? Another outdoor learning activity for POLO week.
Below is a clip when the Lion meets Dorothy, the Scarecrow and the Tin-Man in the Wizard of OZ!
Lions and Tigers and Bears – oh my!!
You can watch some Lions and Tigers and Koala Bears!! On the live Web-Cam from Edinburgh Zoo – you do have to be patient the animals are a wee bit shy!!
Have a look around their website too, did you know they had 2,500 animals and is cost £2000 a day to fed them!!
What kind of Fish is Nemo?
A Clown Fish
What kind of Fish is Dory?
A Pacific blue tang fish, which aren’t always blue!
Now who wants to watch the movie Finding Nemo??
What about other Blue and Orange Animals? Have a look on the internet and see how many different blue and orange animals you can find? Did you find more orange or blue??
Arts and Crafts
We have use potatoes to do stamping and printing in the Pine Room and all enjoyed it – so this is a nice easy craft for you to do at home all you need is a potato, a knife, some paint and paper.
If you want to follow the theme try Orange printing and create something different. Citrus Printing
For our Blue Craft – paint a paper plate blue and create something – perhaps a blue animal? Let’s see what you make – check the internet for inspiration!!!
Story Time
We all love Julia Donaldson – so if you haven’t read it for a while what about reading ‘The Whale and the Snail’ or use the link for Mrs Rutland reads….
Some other POLO Outside Activities:
- Shadow Drawing – we do this quite often in the Pine Class and all enjoy it, you do need a sunny day ( let’s be hopeful!!!!)and some chalk, but you can draw around anything that that creates a shadow – your dog, a plant pot, a garden gnome, a barbie doll, a box of cereal. Leave the object in the same position and later in the day draw round the shadow again – is it different??
- Making a Garden Picture – using things you can pick from your garden, then create a lovely picture, like this one from The Craft Train
Music and Dancing 
I have linked a fast song and a slower song – whatever you feel like!
This week should have been the School Prom – so on Friday Night you are all encouraged to have a dance and get dressed up if you want!! 
Willow the Bear
HELLO Pine Class – How are you all? Did you have a good week? Did anyone make Blueberry Muffins from last week’s blog? I love Blueberry Muffins so if you do please send me some!!! Heather doesn’t bake!!! I have been watching some ‘Reality TV’ while Heather has been at work – Jardine and Boyle send me recommendations each week – Heather would prefer I watch something more educational! We have been tidying up her wardrope, I have great fun hiding in her piles of clothes and then surprising her!!! We had a wee cup of tea before she went off to Night Duty last night BUT we ran out of biscuits!!! Heather says if I moan once more about the lack of Custard Creams I am getting sent by Royal Mail back to Willowbank!!!
Have a great week Pine Class
Love Willow xxx
P.S. Send Custard Creams!!!
Have a Great Week Pinettes
Lots of the Love
The Pine Ladies
xxxx
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Sungazers 8th June 2020
Good Morning Sungazers! Hope that you are all doing well?
This week we are going to the thinking about Sun Safety – what do we need to do/wear in the sunshine to keep us all safe!
Here are 3 activities to try at home –
- Read through these posters – can you recognise all of these things to keep us safe in the sun?
- Suncream Song – have fun learning this song about applying sun cream. It is to the tune ‘1,2,3,4,5, Once I Caught A Fish Alive’.
- Lastly, here is a cut and stick activity – what would you put in your beach bag?
Have a wonderful week and remember to please email us any photos of you completing your work – we would love to see you!
Team Sungazers
